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I remember the exact moment that everything started.

The house felt different.

Right from the start, I felt that the house

was hiding from me.

They're not expecting to end up embroiled in

a turf war with the other side.

It was like a death stare.

It was terrifying.

I think this might be a clue into who this person might be.

Just like a jigsaw puzzle--

it all clicked together and it made sense.

That's enough of this.

And I got mad.

Things start to progress... and fast.

This entity cut him up.

He's being manipulated by something

that has a far more sinister purpose.

It's gonna continue to get worse

as long as the spirit is in the house.

Dead. Done.

Dead silence.

All hell broke loose.

New Hampshire, in general, is a beautiful part

of the country.

Before I moved to Derry,

I lived in Pelham, New Hampshire,

and I lived in a smaller house.

I was there for 20 years.

During the pandemic, when we were all home,

we realized that we were all on top of each other.

The name of this house is the Alanson Tucker Mansion.

I did not know any history about this house.

I didn't know it was called the Alanson Tucker House

when I was purchasing it.

My first impression of this house was, it was overwhelming.

My husband was the one that found the house.

He was very excited about it, and he wanted to show it to me.

So, when I first saw it, I thought, wow--

I said, "This is more than I planned on...

...getting into."

What'd I say? Beautiful.

This case of Colleen and Colin Costello

is really interesting to me,

because here they are, moving into this very old

building, and you know that really speaks to the fact that

there's such a layered history here, and also that spirits

really feel attached to specific places.

Richard Estep, take one.

The case of Colleen Costello reminds me of the old saying

that there's no place like home.

When she and her husband move into the home of their dreams,

they're not expecting to end up embroiled in a turf war with

the other side.

When this opportunity arose to own like a historical house

like this, it was kind of exciting in one way,

but at the same time, kind of,

I don't know if I want to do this.

I walked around the house...

as he's like amazed by everything and saying,

"Oh my God, don't you feel how amazing"-- you know.

I was surprised because I normally pick up

an energy in any home.

It doesn't have to be an old home, but in any home,

when I walk into it, you know, good, bad energy, whatever.

There was no energy in the home.

I didn't feel anything.

And it was so bizarre

because being over a 200-year-old house,

there'd have to be some energy in there.

Nothing.

Right from the start, I felt the house was hiding from me.

We moved in, and after a day of unpacking,

we went to bed.

About 4:30 in the morning, we started to hear all this

clattering and banging downstairs in the kitchen.

We could hear it from the room.

We were like, we just moved in here.

Is there somebody downstairs? Is somebody broken in?

So we came out here to--

to look and to listen to the noise that was coming from

the kitchen downstairs.

As quickly as it started, it just stopped like that--

boom, everything just stopped dead.

Done. Dead silence.

We did go down, and there was nothing.

Nothing was out of place.

So that was the first night.

My neighbor next door has lived here for 50 years.

She introduced herself

and had me over to her house for tea...

and walked me all the way down to a pond that was at the back

of her garden, which I didn't even know was there

because you can't actually see it from my house.

When she showed me the pond, I immediately...

just had this really awful feeling that there was

something awful happened there.

I couldn't explain it, but it was just a really

bad feeling around the pond area.

Things take a special turn when Colleen begins to

hear voices in her head and specifically,

a woman's voice.

I was in my living room and I was just sitting.

I was just sitting in my living room.

I have something I need to tell you.

And I heard this voice.

And she said to me, "I need to talk to you.

I have something I need to tell you."

I was a patient here.

She was a patient here in this house.

And her name was Betsy.

And that she said too much, that she talked too much.

They got rid of me.

And that they disposed of her...

In the pond.

...in the pond.

I found out the house was a care home, again,

from my neighbor next door.

She filled me in on a lot of history of the house

that I wasn't even aware of.

I was told that it was licensed for, I think, 12 patients,

and it had 42 patients.

They shouldn't have had that many people in this house,

because there wasn't enough room for that many patients.

When she told me that, I was like,

"Oh my God, that's why

I felt that way when I was at the pond."

It was like a jigsaw puzzle--

it all clicked together, and it made sense.

We make the discovery that Colleen's home was once

a nursing home.

And conditions in that home were not necessarily the best.

The nursing home was filled over capacity.

It was packed. It was crowded.

There weren't enough staff to take care of the needs of

everybody who lived there.

Conditions there were miserable.

We had just gotten into bed.

And I-- my side of the bed was towards the door that goes into

the nanny's room.

I never liked that side of the room.

I felt like somebody was gonna come through that door.

We're sleeping back to back.

In the middle of the night, um,

I felt like I was being pushed from behind.

Oomph!

I'm being pushed towards the edge of the bed.

So I'm literally being shoved.

Oomph!

All of a sudden, I realized I'm gonna fall out of the bed.

So then, I took my hand and I went,

what the heck? I said, "What the hell are you doing?"

And I put my hand back and I went, "Stop!"

"Will you stop shoving me?!"

And I put my hand back to say, "Stop."

And as I did that,

that's when I realized there was no one there.

There was a gap of that much between him and me.

And he was way over here.

And that's when I realized that he wasn't the one shoving me

out of the bed.

Ha...

Ha...

I went, "Oh my God!"

I woke my husband up and he goes, "What's wrong?"

And I was like, "I thought you were shoving me out of the bed."

And he goes, "No." He goes, "I haven't been--

I haven't gone near you."

So I was absolutely terrified.

That was very, very scary for me.

Colleen is kicked out of her own bed, which makes me

infer on the history, the fact that this was

a residential home that was at overcapacity, which,

you know, you could have spirits that didn't have beds.

They didn't have space.

It's entirely possible that the shoving Colleen experienced

in the bed was a spirit from the nursing home.

We know that this was overcrowded.

We can reasonably believe that people were crammed into beds,

multiple people into one bed.

Pushing and shoving would be something I would expect

under those circumstances.

But then a clue comes to light that reveals this might all have

been triggered before they even moved in.

Right before we moved in, my husband had a dream.

The dream he had was of the basement of this house.

In the corner of the basement...

...there was this dark shadow.

It was a girl, and she was crying.

What's wrong? What's wrong?

Are you OK?

No.

What's wrong?

I need to go upstairs.

And she said, "I need to go upstairs."

I want to go upstairs.

I said, "I hope you said no."

And he said, "Oh, yeah, yeah, of course I did.

Of course I said no."

I want to go upstairs.

Only to find out later on,

after we moved in and things started escalating

in the house, that he actually said yes.

It's my belief that what happened to Colleen's husband

wasn't a simple dream at all.

This was a spirit visitation, that he was in communication

with the spirit of a female in the basement of the house.

You know, there's a woman here that's seeking permission from

the man of the house.

Why isn't this spirit asking Colleen for permission?

So I think this might be a clue into who this person might be.

Here's the sinister part.

Colin has lied to his wife about what he said.

And it's entirely possible he did this

just because, hey, it's just a dream,

I don't want to make a big deal out of it.

But it's also possible that he's being manipulated to not

tell the truth by something that has a far more

sinister purpose in mind.

Let's go upstairs.

I believe that he let up a negative spirit,

something that might have been banished down

into the basement. - Are you ready?

Are you coming?

We were getting ready for bed, and obviously there was already

a lot of really negative energy in the room, and we were

feeling really nervous.

Colin.

Colin.

Colin.

Colleen...

It just-- that's my arm.

We had just gotten into bed, and he said,

"I just felt a hand on my shoulder and it go down my arm."

Colleen.

And when I turned over towards him...

There was this woman just standing there, like,

right behind him-- now he couldn't see

because he was turned towards me.

So she was standing behind his back, standing right there

at the side of the bed.

Dark hair up in a bun, high neck blouse,

and a long skirt, and she just was staring at me like this.

It was like a death stare. Like, it was terrifying.

Absolutely terrifying.

What was that? What was that?

I never told him I saw her,

because he was already scared enough.

So I didn't, I didn't tell him.

And then we started sleeping in the living room on the couch.

I did not want to be in the bedroom at all.

After the spirit visitation, when Colin inadvisably gave

his permission for the female spirit to come upstairs,

she's now taking full advantage of that permission.

It feels like this spirit is really trying to manipulate

and target, specifically, Colin as a way maybe to create

separation or divide or maybe even quarreling between

husband and wife, between Colin and Colleen.

So this could be a revealing piece of information as to

who this person is.

It was terrifying to see her.

But then I started to hear her.

The tone in her voice was definitely not

friendly or sweet.

I had no problem making the connection between

the voice and who I saw. I knew that was her.

When I would be coming back in the house and I would come in

the front door and I'd have my grocery shopping

or whatever...

Welcome back.

I don't want you here.

The minute I walked in the door, she'd be like,

ready for me.

Go hang yourself in the attic.

She would say things like, "Why don't you go hang yourself

in the attic?"

And it was so...

awful.

The energy got so bad in the house,

it affected me mainly.

It decided then to just focus on me, um,

and constantly started kind of harassing me.

I heard the name Liza-- "I'm Liza."

- That's when she told me who she was. - Liza...

Liza...

I started to get physically sick.

I was constantly nauseous, pounding headaches.

The minute I'd walk into the house, my left ear would

start ringing really, really badly.

I went to the doctor and the doctor was like,

"There's nothing wrong with your ear."

She's getting increasingly sick.

And when she goes to the doctor to try and get a diagnosis,

the best they can do is shrug their shoulders and say,

"We can't find anything wrong with you."

It's because the problem isn't a medical one.

It's a paranormal one.

The negative energy would just like sit on my chest.

Like I would wake up and it was just like

this heavy darkness around me all the time.

I just couldn't get away from it.

The only place I felt safe in the house was in the kitchen,

where I felt like I belonged, like was part of the staff.

So I never felt like I was the lady of the house.

Whereas my husband felt like he was the man of the house.

He kind of like almost became obsessed with the house.

My husband and I were not seeing eye-to-eye.

Something worth noting is the fact that

Colin and Colleen, they had different feelings

when they came into the house.

It wasn't really special to her.

Colin, on the other hand, he felt really enamored

by the space.

So, you know, I'm really interested in the difference in

those energies, and it might speak to the fact that,

you know, there's a spirit here that might also feel enamored

with this house.

We were fighting all the time.

He couldn't understand why I'm sick all the time.

...wouldn't agree to buy this house!

I wanted to sell the house.

I was like, "I don't want to be here anymore."

He's like, "There's no way. We're not selling this house."

She's everywhere!

- It's all in your mind. You're going crazy. - It's not!

You should get some help.

He wasn't hearing her,

so he didn't believe she was taunting me.

- Who's "she"? - She's there, she's there!

- Where? OK-- - This is ridiculous.

I'm finished. I'm out of here.

You're not the lady of the house.

She'd say, "You're not the lady of the house."

She was pulling my husband in

and trying to push me out.

You'll never be the lady of the house.

he's all mine.

Our relationship was affected.

We were fighting all the time.

It was like she wanted to take my place beside my husband.

It then reached a point where it got worse for me--

accelerated, and got significantly worse.

At this point, it actually really doesn't point to

the spirits being from this era of the house where there was

a nursing home because it feels really intimate that this

person wants to be in their room or in their bed.

I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep.

I lost a ton of weight. I was so sick.

But it was completely from the energy in the house here.

And constantly having her, like, harass me all the time

with bad language and threatening me.

I'd reached a point where I was so sick,

I could barely stand up.

My husband, he's like, "You need to go to the hospital."

And I was like "I can't go to the hospital again," because every time

I went to the hospital, to the emergency room,

they sent me home and said, "You're fine."

So then finally he was like, "It's the house.

I can't deal with this anymore."

So he just decided to call the church.

My husband brought in a priest. He came out that night.

He came-- literally came out an hour later.

Oh great, thanks for coming.

Please come in, please come in.

You're welcome, my son.

This is my wife, Colleen.

It's so nice to see you, Father.

Nice to meet you--

He actually gave me a special blessing.

In the name of the father...

OK.

He blessed the whole house.

He went into every single corner, every room,

every closet, everything. He blessed everything.

I bless... in the name of the Father,

and the Son, let us pray.

Be gone!

After he left,

energy in the house-- boom, changed completely.

I was fine.

I was fine. The house was fine.

The energy, like, completely changed.

I eventually found out that Alanson Tucker's wife's name

was Eliza Tucker.

Therefore, I assume that that could have possibly been

his wife, the spirit of his wife.

Eliza wanted revenge.

She wanted to be the lady of the house.

She didn't want any other lady of the house here.

You can't explain to anybody until you go through

it yourself. It is terrifying.

What do we do when we go into a new place?

What is the ethics spiritually to find rapport with Spirit

or to help them move on?

And in the Costello case, this ceremony helped them be

rid of the spirit, that the spirit,

you know, either moved away or moved on.

You want to do that so that you can either put an end to

whatever is happening or you can find a way to live

harmoniously with the spirit.

To be terrified to come home to your own home, or sleep in

your own bed, or go into your own bedroom, or walk around

your house and constantly feel threatened by something

you can't see is absolutely terrifying.

Some time has passed now,

and it seems the activity has quieted down.

It felt much, much better.

My family still lives in the house.

It's our home.

We lived in Raleigh, North Carolina.

I wanted to surprise my wife for Christmas

by building us a house.

So we picked this lot and had the house built.

It took about six months.

It was a two-story house,

sitting up on a little hill over a creek.

We had this huge oak tree in the yard.

It was our first home and we were really excited about it.

It was a perfect place to raise a family.

Hey! You scared me.

We moved in and everything was peaceful...

...until all hell broke loose.

I'm investigating the case of Michael Nesbitt, whose story

culminates on Halloween night, the night when it's said that

the veil between the realms of the living and the dead is

at its thinnest.

Michael's about to have his own encounter

with something otherworldly.

Tawney Louis, take one.

What I think about the Michael Nesbitt case,

immediately, messy. There's a lot happening.

I thought, move out. Leave now.

I remember the exact moment that everything started,

the very beginning of it.

We'd been living in the house for several years.

It was October, so it was Halloween.

All the children were in bed.

Michael!

This, again? You said you were gonna do the dishes!

What do you need?

My wife and I were having an argument.

We heard this huge crash.

My first thought was the baby fell out of the bed,

so we ran upstairs.

Go, go, go.

So when I got upstairs, I heard running.

But they were all asleep.

So we thought, well, maybe it was my oldest son and maybe

he was listening to our argument.

He ran down the hall thinking he might get in trouble.

Mike, what the hell was that?

His pulse was down. He was completely calm.

He was asleep. It wasn't him.

So we were completely baffled.

There's no reason to suspect a paranormal explanation

at this point.

Sometimes a thud is just a thud.

It could be the air conditioning.

It could be an open window.

It could be, unfortunately, rats.

It could be a lot of different things.

It's easy to write this particular incident off

as a coincidence.

However, things start to progress.

And fast.

That kind of thing would happen pretty regularly.

You could hear these footsteps...

pacing back and forth.

The footsteps were...

all the time. It was all the time.

The first paranormal phenomenon we encounter in this case is

the sound of footsteps pacing back and forth.

And this is very common, especially in

residual hauntings.

It's essentially a paranormal recording.

The idea that a regular activity that took place over

and over again somehow imprints itself on the environment,

and we're able to hear that replayed over and over again

many years in the future.

The repeating footsteps reminded me of something

I did research on.

Not that far from Michael Nesbitt's house,

there's a place called Mordecai Manor.

And a lot of people say that they see a woman in

19th-century garb...

pacing, playing the piano.

Very similar to what is going on in Michael Nesbitt's case.

So I wonder if there is a spirit in his house playing

out their daily life on a loop.

So I just I got home from my day and I thought I saw

my five-year-old son sneak behind the door

to play a trick on me.

Buddy? Is that you?

So, I decided I was gonna play a trick on him.

So I tiptoed down the hall...

I came up to the door.

And I was gonna yell "boo" at him.

And to this day, I'll never forget reaching out,

reaching out...

to the doorknob...

And then I just yanked it back.

And there's nobody there.

It looked just like my son.

Out of the corner of my eye, I could have sworn that

that was my child.

I got this chills, and my hair's standing up.

Alarm bells are going off that there's something bad.

Something's wrong.

There are a couple possibilities as to what's

happening here, and one is that spirits have the ability to

manifest in whatever way they would like to.

What's concerning in Michael's case is that it's appearing

as his son.

What this might mean is that it's trying to worm its way

into his confidence for reasons of its own.

My second theory comes from research into

historic happenings in the local area.

In 1958, there was a tragic orphanage fire...

...in which a number of children lost their lives.

I'm starting to wonder whether this spirit could be wandering

the vicinity, has gone into Michael's home, and is playing

mischievous pranks on him for its own amusement.

The house felt different.

I mean, it felt...

different.

It felt like, heavy, or depressing.

There was just something about the house that just

wasn't the same.

People would see things.

Everybody in the house experienced

something at some point.

My sons came up to me and they said, "We saw eyes."

And, you know, they were so young that they couldn't

explain it well. They just said, "We saw eyes."

My wife got progressively

more angry the longer we were in that house.

...to sell. I am so tired of all this--

There were times where it just didn't seem like

a normal anger.

We had a lot of stressors on the marriage, but this

didn't help. It didn't help at all.

As this case progresses, it seems less likely

that it would be the theory of a child from the fire that

happened in 1958.

Because these attacks seem directed to Michael

and his family.

It's interesting to me that the haunting took place not as

soon as Michael and his family moved in,

but some years afterwards.

And we're pinpointing the fact that stresses

in their marriage, in their relationship,

are starting to amp up.

I'm not shocked to see them fighting constantly.

It's going to continue to get worse as long as the spirit is

in the house.

What's wrong?

I came home from work...

What happened?

...and our oldest had had an incident.

He got up, took a shower...

- What happened? - I don't know!

...and he had scratches all over his body.

Look at me. Look at me.

- What happened? - Is it OK?

Hey, what's going on?

The scratches were deep enough to draw blood.

But he had probably over 20 cuts on him.

And they were very unusual looking.

I have really thick skin. I'm bleeding, and it hurts--

He had one directly across his throat, like it was

like someone slicing his neck.

The only explanation I have is that this entity...

cut him up.

I don't know. What is this?

Buddy, I'm so sorry.

We now know this is no residual haunting at all.

This house! This house!

It's cursed!

His son is being specifically targeted, and there's been

an escalation from the emotional domain

to physical. Blood has literally been shed.

As a researcher, I don't see that too often,

scratches around someone's neck, especially a child.

It's an act of intimidation. It's an act of aggression.

Usually, that is when people want to get a priest

or they need more paranormal researchers to come out,

because this is something that wants to let you know that

they are in charge.

I don't know why it cut him up, but I said, "That's enough.

That's enough of this."

And I got mad.

I think that's the first time we called the church.

We had the priest come in three times

and bless that house.

Three times.

Give us this day, our daily bread.

And forgive our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us.

If we had somebody come in to bless the house,

we'd get no activity...

for about six months or so.

And then it would always just start easing back in,

just start easing back in.

Plan B should never be Plan A done harder, and Michael has

tried three times bringing in a priest to remove the entity

from the house, all of it without any success.

It hurts, and--

A spirit's values and belief system will carry through

with them into the afterlife.

You have to remember that spirits will have the same

personality that they had when they were here in the physical,

and so priests may not always work.

One night, while everybody was sleeping, I'm standing there at

the kitchen sink,

and then all of a sudden...

I just had this feeling, something was right behind me.

All the hairs on my body stood up.

Like it was static electricity.

That's when it went from as big as the wall

down into nothing and just disappeared in the corner.

It just moved right into the corner.

And I'm gonna look into the people, I'm gonna look

into the history, and I'm gonna look into the property

itself in my attempts to find an answer.

The key to figuring out who this entity is

is what triggered it?

Eventually, after all this activity had happened,

the theory I came up with

and what hit-- what hit on me the most

was I'd been watching this program...

and they were having this series

of these very haunted places.

On this particular episode, they were in this castle in

the UK somewhere.

And at the beginning of the show...

...they did this Celtic ritual to open a portal

to try to get more activity in this place.

But they ended the show without closing the portal.

I believe that that TV program opened a portal,

and something came through.

I've looked at the aspects of Michael's case carefully,

and while I do think it's interesting that

he watched on TV some kind of ritual, an incantation being

performed, I don't know that that has actually conjured

something into his physical environment.

I feel that his property may have already been haunted.

Maybe the program he was watching, he may have been in

a little bit of a meditation and kind of hypnotized.

Because I do believe that something happened to him that

night that would have triggered all the paranormal activity

in his house.

I tried to research into what was there beforehand.

Typically in this area, most of the subdivisions,

they'll buy up an old farm and then they'll

build houses on it.

Our house sat kind of up on a hill with a creek...

running under it.

And with this huge oak tree.

We had the biggest tree in the neighborhood.

And it's pretty common in the South for people to have

family plots, like on their farm, a family cemetery,

underneath the biggest tree on the property.

There were graves there, and nobody knew about it before

they built the house.

Examining the area around Michael's home, it becomes

apparent that this property was built on a burial ground.

It's generally considered unwise to build on top of

a burial ground.

Whenever you show disrespect to the dead, you should be wary,

because they might treat you with equal disrespect

and maybe even seek revenge on you for intruding

on their space.

Before I experienced all this,

I'd had other experiences throughout my life.

But I'd always dismissed them.

This was different because this happened all the time.

We had been having activity in the house

for three to five years at this point.

The majority of the time, you can communicate with

the spirit and let them know what it is you want.

This is your house.

You gain control of the situation.

In rare instances like Michael,

he needs to leave.

We got out of the house.

It didn't follow me, and everything was peaceful.